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Comment Re:And as usual, Slashdot commenters miss the poin (Score 1) 280

Instead, the point is that there exists a systematic, cultural, and longstanding bias against encouraging and fostering scientific and mathematical proficiency in female students,

Given that I can't recall any encouraging or fostering of myself for my chosen field of employment, I can't muster up anything beyond apathy for those who complain about the lack of fostering for going into one field or another.

Comment Re:Most Important (Score 1) 485

First things first: We have to make sure that no banker ever loses so much as a Euro, no matter how bad the investment. That's primary in this deal.

Do you mean individual people who happen to be employed at banks, or the banks themselves? Because yes, society at large has an issue with the banks losing large amounts of money. Why? Because is the money in the banks is societies money. Where did the bank get the money to lend to Greece? From you. So if the Greece defaults on their debts, and then banks don't get repaid, it's your money that went away and will no longer be able to pull out of the bank. If there's no money to pull out of the bank, there's no money to pull out of the bank.

Comment Re:Wrong skin color (Score 1) 410

According to this article, having too many people of a specific skin color in an area causes crime.

Actually, according to the article, it's claiming that by having too many rich people causes crime. The idea being that having someone move it and get a well paying job that must have only come from making someone else unemployed. So now there are a bunch of unemployed homeless people, and all of the housing has gone to over paid people. So home breakins has increased because now there's actually something worth stealing in houses.

Comment If they did that they would lose clients (Score 0) 107

If the cloud provider created an encryption that even they couldn't work with they wouldn't have clients. For starters, search wouldn't work. Secondly, the average Joe would expect the cloud solution to be like someone holding something for him in a safe. Should he lose the key for the safe, he would still expect a way to prove his identity and have the owner of the safe open it for him on his behalf.

So your best bet is to go with a solution whose privacy policy states that they won't datamine your data for commercial purposes.

Comment Re:Some good, some bad (Score 1) 389

Will carpool lanes give way to "autodriver" lanes as a carrot to get people to use the system, or because they are ultimately more efficient than carpooling itself in relieving traffic?

I suspect that carpool lanes will still exist as an incentive for multiple commuter to pile into the same car. If every morning I whip out my phone and hit the "I need a pickup in 15 min" button, and an options pops up to pay less to carpool, I'll probably hit that, and end up in a car with a few people from my neighborhood. We'll all probably be ignoring each other, but that's okay. Then I might get inconvenienced a little bit as one or two people get dropped off at their work before mine. As long as the pick up and drop offs are in same neighborhood, I think it'll be worth it for most people to have an automated system commute for them like that.

Comment Re:Education requires intelligence (Score 1) 150

The thing is, the 'boring stuff' can be made fun - with a lot of creative work by a human teacher. Technology can't do that.

Think about the actions you do when having fun with technology. If it wasn't a game, smashing the same four buttons over and over would not be fun. But the technology has made it fun. Once someone figures out how to make teaching a certain principle fun, technology can replicate that solution the world over, instead of being bottled up in a single classroom.

Comment Re:I'm sure /. will ridicule it, but... (Score 1) 306

Well if you had highschool chemistry you would know that chewing medical pills is bad for you because it increases the absorption and surface area of the medication.

Most everyone had highschool chemistry, and that's not the reason why they know that chewing medical pills is bad. They know it's bad because at one point some authority figure would have told them not to, and the instructions on the bottle would say to do otherwise.

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